Fellowship Award
Groundbreaking research into diabetic retinopathy and telemedicine wins fellowship
Colin Kerr
Published: Tuesday, July 9, 2019
From left: Prof Peter Wiedemann (ICO President), Neeru Gupta (ICO Vice President),Dr Matias Iglicki, Prof Berthold Seitz (ICO Director of Fellowships)[/caption] A panel of leading experts has selected groundbreaking research into diabetic retinopathy and telemedicine as the winner of this year’s International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) and Allergan Fellowship. Dr Matias Iglicki from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina is the second recipient of the ICO-Allergan Fellowship Award. The award of a $50,000 grant, announced at the 2019 European Society of Ophthalmology meeting in Nice, France, will enable Dr Iglicki to continue his research into diabetic retinopathy and telemedicine, which he has been working on since 2004. https://www.allergan.ie/en-ie/home
Tags: allergan, diabetic retinopathy, telemedicine
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